Stanislaw II of Poland

Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (17 January 1732-12 February 1798) was the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, reigning from 1764 to 1795. He was crushed in 1768 in the War of the Bar Confederation by his former lover Catherine the Great of the Russian Empire. In 1792 and 1794 he was again crushed by the Russian armies and in 1795 Poland was divided.

Biography
Stanislaw August Poniatowski was a son of Stanislaw Poniatowski, a general of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stanislaw became the king because of a love affair with Catherine the Great of Russia, who saw that he was elected to the throne in 1764. However, he was a better man than expected by the Russian Empire, who allied with Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire to keep Poland a weak nation. In 1768 the Bar Confederation nobles and Stanislaw were defeated despite assistance from Mustafa III of Turkey and Charles Dumouriez of France. In 1792 and 1794, years later, he was again defeated in the last campaigns of Catherine's reign, and the Russian armies crushed Polish resistance to impose two further paritions of Poland.